Washington Breweries Win Big at Best of Craft Beer Awards

A collage of images from the Best of Craft Beer Awards.
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Last weekend, professional brewers and judges from as far away as Chile descended upon Central Oregon to judge over 1,850 entries in the 2024 Best of Craft Beer Awards competition. Breweries of all sizes sent over 13,000 containers of their finest product for evaluation in 55 categories and subcategories. Judging took place during a 3-day, five-session period by over 100 of the most qualified international judges. They awarded 169 gold, silver, and bronze medals to 123 brewery locations worldwide.

The judging takes place in Redmond, Oregon. Naturally, breweries from Oregon, Washington, and California enjoy an advantage because transporting beer to the event is so much easier. Call it a home-field advantage. The more beers you enter, the better your chances of winning. Still, that does not diminish the accomplishment. The typical caveat applies: we know which beers won, but we do not know which beers did and did not enter the competition.

  • Oregon breweries raked in 41 medals this year.
  • Washington breweries brought home 27 medals.
  • California breweries also earned 27 medals.
  • Special congrats to Grains of Wrath Brewing for winning four medals.

Below I share the Washington and Oregon winners. You can see the complete list of all winners here.

Washington’s Gold Medal Winners:

  • Grains of Wrath Brewing – Dystopian  IPA – IPA
  • Old Stove Brewing – No One Knows – Hazy or Juicy Pale Ale           
  • Ladd & Lass Brewing – Swinging at Mirrors – Hazy or Juicy IPA
  • Icicle Brewing –  Magic Meadow – Hazy or Juicy Imperial IPA
  • Reuben’s Brews -Three Ryes Men – Barley Wines, Wheat Wine, & Rye Wine
  • Terramar Brewing – Octopus Garden Gose – German Sour Beers
  • Stemma Brewing – Mirror Coffee Oatmeal Stout – Coffee Beer
  • Single Hill Brewing – Skybreak – Wood- & Barrel-Aged Specialty Stouts
  • Recluse Brew Works – RBW Export Lager – Pale European Lagers
  • White Bluffs Brewing – Goatbuck Helles Bock – Bocks

Washington’s Silver Medal Winners:

  • Larrabee Lager Co. – Coast City – Kölsch
  • White Bluffs Brewing – Shadows – Porters & Brown Ales
  • Grains of Wrath Brewing – Into the Void – Imperial Porters & Brown Ales
  • Fortside Brewing – Oude AF – Spontaneous Fermentation/Mixed-Culture/Brett Beers
  • Blewett Brewing – Standard American Lager – Light Lagers

Washington’s Bronze Medal Winners:

  • Grains of Wrath Brewing (Collab w/ Shred Beer Co.) – Totally Terminated – Hop-Forward Session Beers
  • Icicle Brewing – Dragontail – Pale Ale
  • Grains of Wrath Brewing – Panopticon IPA – IPA
  • Burke-Gilman Brewing Co.- Orange Julia – Hazy or Juicy Pale Ale
  • Project 9 Brewing – King Lupu’s Happy Juice – Hazy or Juicy IPA
  • Loowit Brewing – Corsair Kolsch – Kölsch
  • Formula Brewing – Wetland Wheat – American Wheat Beers
  • Lumberbeard Brewing – Flirting With Disaster – Spontaneous Fermentation/Mixed-Culture/Brett Beers
  • Trap Door Brewing – Untitled #8 – Fruited Mixed-Culture Beers

Oregon Gold Medal Winners:

  • Sunriver Brewing Co. – Bondi Beach Party – Pale Ale
  • Van Henion Brewing – Van Henion Kolsch – Kölsch
  • Deschutes Brewery Bend Public House – Otter Encounter – English Ales
  • Sunriver Brewing Co. – Cinder Beast – Red or Strong Red Beers
  • Conversion Brewing – Mission Stout – Stouts
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Revive – Imperial Stouts
  • Wild Ride Brewing – Whoopty Whoop Hefeweizen – American Wheat Beers
  • Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House – Dip N’ Dunkel – Specialty Grains & Fermentables
  • Evasion Brewing – Always in Saison – Gluten-Free Beers
  • Oregon City Brewing Co. – Another Brick in Wallonia – Classic Saisons & Farmhouse Beers
  • Old Town Brewing – Sahti – Rare & Historical Beers
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Ginzu – American Sour Beers
  • Oregon City Brewing Co. – Coming to Fruition: Cherry – Spontaneous Fermentation/Mixed-Culture/Brett Beers
  • Alesong Brewing and Blending – Raspberry Parliament – Fruited Mixed-Culture Beers
  • Breakside Brewery & Taproom (Collab w/ The Lost Abbey) – The Great Awakening – Wood- & Barrel-Aged Strong Beers
  • Migration Brewing Co. – Paloma – Experimental Beers
  • McMenamins Old Saint Francis School – Pitter Patter – Light Lagers
  • Falling Sky Brewing – Hanzo Lager – North American Lagers
  • Von Ebert Brewing – Pils – German Pilsner
  • 10 Barrel- Portland – Validation Sequence – Czech Pilsner
  • Breakside Brewery & Taproom – Thriving Metropolis – Hop-Forward Lagers

Oregon Silver Medal Winners:

  • Fort George Brewery, Public House – Westmore IPA – IPA
  • Oregon City Brewing Co. – Dark ‘Vator Black Ale – Cascadian Dark Ale
  • McMenamins Old Saint Francis School – Parental Advisory (Cryo Content) – Experimental Hop-Forward Beers & Other IPAs
  • Wild Ride Brewing – Big Booty Golden Ale – Golden or Blonde Ale
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Baywindow – German Sour Beers
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Gindulgence – American Sour Beers
  • Bevel Craft Brewing – Midnight Buzzz – Coffee Beers
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Cerveza de los Muertos – Flavored Beers
  • Breakside Brewery & Taproom – Let Your Indulgence Set Me Free – Wood- & Barrel-Aged Stouts
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Agrio Morado – Experimental Beers
  • Grand Fir Brewing – Trail Bloom – Czech Pilsner
  • Immersion Brewing (collab w/ Boneyard) – Shredsquatch – Collaboration

Oregon Bronze Medal Winners:

  • StormBreaker Brewing – Buffalo Smile – Hazy or Juicy Imperial IPA
  • Zoiglhaus Brewing Co. – Zoigl-Weiss – German Wheat Beers
  • Von Ebert Brewing – Perfect All American Wit – Belgian Ales
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Riviera – German Sour Beers
  • 10 Barrel Brewing – Cheap Vacation – American Sour Beers
  • Wolf Tree Brewing – BA Spruce Tip Gruit – Experimental Beers
  • 10 Barrel, Portland – Helles – Pale European Lagers
  • Deschutes Brewery (collab w/McMenamins Old Saint Francis School) – Buzzin’ Around – Collaboration

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